She plays for Prestatyn in the North Wales Women's League and despite her team's struggles she has scored an excellent 13 goals.

When did you start playing football and what attracted you to the game?

I was attending primary school. At break and lunch times I used to kick the ball around with the lads and girls and my teacher Mrs Morgan, who already had a daughter playing for Wales, and Mr Williams, who was a sports teacher approach my mum and asked if I played for a local team and would I consider it because they recognised my talent.

My mum mentioned it to me and I really wanted to follow what people were pushing me to do, so I said yes. It was something new for me to try and very exciting, I enjoyed the speed and the atmosphere of it all. I was 11 years of age when I started playing for a team.

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What was the name of your first team and how good were they?

The name of my first team was called Prestatyn Under-12 teens. My first team was very competitive and had a good level of football but room for a lot of improvement. We won some trophies but not many. I have then progressed in the Prestatyn team to the under 14, 16 and now Prestatyn Ladies.

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What is your favourite position?

I have many positions I play in, such as right-wing, right-back, centre-mid and forward, but my favourite one if I was to pick a position, I would say right-wing. Here I feel I can express myself more and when enjoying my position it makes me enjoy the game more and makes me more successful and that makes the team successful.

What are your strengths and weaknesses as a player?

Lily Corry pictured the night before her trials to play in America

I’m definitely not the best player out there but I would say that my strengths are slide tackling and fighting for the ball, also I have a lot power behind my shot, another strength would be I am able to take corners, sometimes even score from them, I have done that a twice this season.

I work well with a team, I’m not one of them players that just hog the ball, I make sure I pass to whoever is in space and wants the ball. I am very supportive with my team and have a lot of time for them on and off the pitch.

I believe it is important to have a good relationship with the team to be successful. My weakness would be that I need to look up when I have the ball to make sure I get my shots on target because I could have managed a lot more goals than 13 this season which is a real shame.

Another weakness would be that because I’m good at finding space away from opposite players I don’t let the people with the ball know I’m there properly, I need to shout louder for the ball but this is a confidence issue that I’m gradually getting over.

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Describe the best goal you have ever scored

It was when I was playing Llangefni, I remember it was in the rain and wind, I was coming down the right wing and I had a shot from halfway and it had that much power behind it that it curled and went straight in the top left corner. I have scored many goals but that would be my best because of the way it just curled.

Best game ever played in?

Lily Corry celebrates a goal in the Welsh Cup Final with Prestatyn team-mate Rachel Lloyd (right)

It would have to be the FAW Under-16 Welsh Cup Final in Newtown 2015. This was when Prestatyn Under-16s were unbeatable and on fire. That would have been one of my favourite and best experiences of football I have ever been involved with. In that game it was my second time of playing right back where I made sure I put in a fighting battle which succeeded.

How do you feel the current season is going for Prestatyn?

Considering this is the first season for Prestatyn Ladies under our coach Neil Luke who is putting so much effort into it, we are getting there slowly. We have lost many games but this season is a learning streak for us ladies.

Every game we are making better progress, for example on January 15 we played Pwllheli did really well to draw 3-3.

We played them once before and lost 5-2 . We are second-bottom and Pwllheli are a lot higher but we matched them. We have improved a lot and are getting successful and gelling as a team in matches and also in training. Our training has become more intense and we are working on more technical things.

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Do you have any football role models - male or female?

I don’t not have any football role models when I come to think about it, but there are people I take notice of and search now and then to see how they have progressed and how they have succeeded as a team and what the expectations are in a higher level as I feel I am able to push myself more and start to look at a higher level of football. I follow Man City Ladies, Chelsea Ladies, Everton Ladies and also Liverpool Ladies on Twitter etc. This is how I get my motivation and my goals of what I want to achieve throughout football.

What finishing position would you be happy with in the league this season?

Prestatyn Ladies 2017 with Lily Corry (front row second right)

Like I said before this season for us is just a learning streak because they have never been in a league like this before. As I’ve come up to the ladies it is a more harder game and more intense. I will be happy with any finishing position this season because I know it is our first time as a team together. To me it’s not all about winning it’s about getting experience to progress and when that is achieveable then I believe this is when winning takes place.

What would you like to achieve as a footballer in the rest of your career?

I would like to achieve a lot of different things, such as being a role model to little children and young adults, to say that if your good at something stick at it no matter what, don’t let anyone bring you down,

I would also like to represent my country by playing football which I have yet to come. In 2018 I am planning on going to America to play football as I have been trailing for that the past couple of months and I have been successful.

I am in touch with a couple of USA coaches and speaking with them everyday, So hopefully I can progress from that, Also I would like to play for a professional ladies team. I am in Everton Sixth Form College.

I travel to Liverpool every day to study and play for them too. So I’m hoping I can progress to academies and then professionals through that. I really do want to succeed in football.